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Not sure what to expect on Saturday from this Jekyll and Hyde Drexel team. As stated by Always A Dragon, they've played well against good competition and poorly against bad teams.

Temple has an RPI of 11 right now, but I think that's really deceiving, even though Temple has 4 wins against teams from power conferences, but also lost to a LaSalle team that lost to Drexel. Go figure. Tomorrow Temple hosts the #1 team in the nation at The Pete. Temple must have scheduled Villanova as a warmup to prepare for the mighty Dragons on Saturday. Not sure if it's a good thing or bad thing that Drexel is facing them right after planing Nova.

I usually attend a game at The Pete every couple of years, and Temple always wins big. And since I plan to be there on Saturday, I'm going on a hunch that I will be wasting my time and money heading out to North Broad on Saturday.

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Another game that doesnt look good for us, so we will probably show up and play a great game. Roll the dice and see what numbers come up. I will still go with what my gut says as opposed to how the team has performed against better teams.

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12-13-2017 07:40 AM
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Any update on the injured players?
12-13-2017 08:36 AM
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The Pete is on the other side of the state. If you want to get cute, just call it the LC or the Apollo.
12-13-2017 09:19 AM
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(12-13-2017 08:36 AM)Spearsie Wrote:  Any update on the injured players?

I wouldn't expect any changes from last game until pretty close to the new year, if not after.
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Villanova beats Temple by 20 tonight. I suppose that means we should come in as 1 point favorites on Saturday right?
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(12-13-2017 11:06 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  No
Yeah I guess you're right, our game against Villanova was just an exhibition so using LaSalle as the common opponent is probably more appropriate - so we should be 6 point favorites.
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(12-14-2017 12:08 AM)Water Boy Wrote:  
(12-13-2017 11:06 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  No
Yeah I guess you're right, our game against Villanova was just an exhibition so using LaSalle as the common opponent is probably more appropriate - so we should be 6 point favorites.

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(12-14-2017 12:08 AM)Water Boy Wrote:  
(12-13-2017 11:06 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  No
Yeah I guess you're right, our game against Villanova was just an exhibition so using LaSalle as the common opponent is probably more appropriate - so we should be 6 point favorites.

Having degrees from both schools, I win no matter what.
12-14-2017 09:15 AM
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Here's Amy Fadool's take on this game on Fastbreak Friday. She used a good SAT word "confounding" to describe this Drexel team.

http://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/nc...ime-decade

"Drexel (5-5) at Temple (6-3), Saturday, 5 p.m.
AF: The Owls are a good team, maybe frustrating at times, maybe one-dimensional at other times but they are a good team. All you had to do was watch their most recent game, a 20-point loss to top-ranked Villanova, to see that in full effect. Temple was down the entire game but climbed back in it to cut the deficit to seven at one point thanks to the hot shooting of Quinton Rose. The sophomore shot a scorching 9 of 12 overall, including 4 of 5 from beyond the arc. But Villanova shut down pretty much every other offensive threat from the Owls. And one man alone cannot stop that Wildcats squad.

In fact, after watching 'Nova so far this season, I’m questioning what team will beat the Wildcats. But that is for my co-author Sean Kane to ponder. Let us focus on this week’s matchup for the Owls, and that is Drexel.

These two haven’t faced each other in 10 years. In fact, almost exactly to the date. Back on Dec. 15, 2007, Temple beat Drexel 64-51 at the Palestra.

I have written about Drexel for every Fastbreak Friday thus far this season. In fact, I’ve written about Drexel for nearly every Fastbreak Friday since I started co-authoring this column four years ago. And this year’s team is as confounding as one I’ve encountered.

Last week, I picked them to beat Robert Morris, a team I felt they should’ve easily handled even on the road. But they didn’t. The Dragons lost by double digits. Earlier that same week, they faced La Salle at the Gola. As a mid-week game, it was not subject to my prediction but I would’ve gone with the Explorers at home. But once again, I would’ve been wrong. Drexel led wire to wire and won at La Salle, 72-70. It gave Drexel its third win in a row at the time and the senior Dragons became the school’s first class ever to beat La Salle twice at Gola.

So who to pick this week? Temple is good. I covered that Drexel is confounding. I’m going with the Owls. The loss to Villanova wasn’t pretty. But we could be seeing a championship Wildcats team, so I'll throw it out the window."
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Good game. Spiker is doing a good job despite some idiots thinking he was the wrong hire.
12-16-2017 07:34 PM
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(12-16-2017 07:34 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  Good game. Spiker is doing a good job despite some idiots thinking he was the wrong hire.

He hasn't done enough yet to tell if he was the right hire or not. They're still 5-6, and lost to a couple really bad teams thus far. Only time will tell, if he was the right hire, and he needs a few more years and a full roster of his own players to judge him.
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Exciting game at The Pete tonight. I was impressed with the effort, considering I predicted a 20 point loss. However, Drexel did turn the ball over 15 times and shot just 5 for 10 from the foul line, including a terrible miss on the front end of a 1 and 1 for Stretch at the end of the first half. I really thought that this was a game that Drexel could have won had they taken better care of the basketball and made FT's. They don't get too many opportunities to play a local team like Temple and stun them in their mini-NBA arena. But despite a great effort, they didn't seize the opportunity on what I thought was an off-day for Temple.

At the end of the 1st half, Drexel had plenty of opportunities to get it to within 3 or 4, but found themselves down by 9, which I thought was a real momentum shift. I'll give them credit for starting strong at the start of the 2nd half and fighting back for the entire half to take the late lead.

Something that did impress me today...while we thought that this would be a guard heavy team, lead by Isabell, Harper, and Lee, it turned out that most of today's points were scored by the forwards, Demir and Stretch, who accounted for 31 of the 60 points. Impressive against a bigger team from a power conference.
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(12-16-2017 10:11 PM)J.B. Wrote:  Something that did impress me today...while we thought that this would be a guard heavy team, lead by Isabell, Harper, and Lee, it turned out that most of today's points were scored by the forwards, Demir and Stretch, who accounted for 31 of the 60 points. Impressive against a bigger team from a power conference.

my impression is we need to let our front court carry us. austin williams is probably our most skilled offensive player. i was wrong about demir and he might be a real piece for this program to build around. not necessarily as a first team all league player...but a guy who will make you pay if you don't pay attention to him.

it says something about coach spiker that despite a reputation of wanting to run...he was willing to slow the game down and pound the ball inside. the guards did the best they could in the second half to keep us in it when temple fronted wiliams and took him out of the game. it just takes so much effort for them because they're all limited in some way whether it's size or ability. they play their tails off which makes up for some of that.

we played defense tonight too. guys were helping in the paint. i was surprised to see so many turnovers since it didn't feel as bad as the rmu game. lee held up better tonight and wasn't giving away fast breaks.

overall i think it was a successful game. sure...we could've won...but we could've gotten blown out too. we need to take care of business monday and thursday against teams this program should beat. i agree with jb on the free throws. i hope spiker sees it and proves he can correct it...especially with williams who limits himself if he's going to shoot 20% from the line.
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The biggest thing that I took from tonight's game is on offense, we have many different dimensions to our game. If Lee or Isabell isn't connecting, there are other players to pick up the slack. Once Harper is back, the Dragons have at least 7 guys capable of putting points on the board, 9 if you include Overton and Green.

Isabell and Lee were outsized, and the refs were not calling anything, so their games did not translate all that well. Our bigs, on the other hand, took advantage of a light game being called to bang around on the inside at both ends of the court and not get in foul trouble.

Its a tick in the loss column, but it was a solid game from the Dragons. I just hope that they can start giving Mojica, Isabell, and Lee an little more time OFF the court soon.

Anyway, here's my write-up... http://alwaysadragon.com/temple-postgame/
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i have to see more out of the guards to say we can count on them offensively. temple never really came after them the way robert morris did.

i saw my picture of coach spiker on the court before the game made it on the blog. is that usual for him? i was impressed. usually coaches strut out their 5 minutes before the game and act like they're best friends with the opposing coaches. coach spiker was coaching his butt off.

i also noticed a discussion at the bottom of your blog by somebody named jimbo about doles not playing. i'm honest about not seeing every game...but aside from austin williams...i have not seen a player on this team who's so vital to being on the court that he's beyond sitting for matchup, discipline, or other reasons. he looked out of place on the perimeter against robert morris.
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I sent you a tweet to let you know I was going to use it. Thanks for that, I appreciate it.

That is the norm for him. At home games, he brings the DAC Pack on the court for that last drill and brings them into the team huddle. If Spiker is not out there, Jennings is usually in shorts and sneakers running the team through drills.

As for the guards, I think that they have a lot to offer. They've shown a bit of versatility and the ability to step up when the other ones are having bad days.

As for Doles, I dont think it was a matchup that kept him off the court. I thought that it was something more. Otherwise, there was no reason for Spiker to play just seven players, if for no other reason than to keep from completely gassing your guys when you are playing two games in three days.

Above all else, Spiker's comments about every day is a day to learn leads me to believe that Doles sat to teach him a lesson. But that's just me.

As for the exchange, I welcome them. Its no secret that I was critical of Bruiser, and I am definitely a bit lenient on Spiker, more because I like his attitude towards the team and his attempt to look at things positively. Its a refreshing change.
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(12-17-2017 10:19 PM)MedicSBK Wrote:  I sent you a tweet to let you know I was going to use it. Thanks for that, I appreciate it.

That is the norm for him. At home games, he brings the DAC Pack on the court for that last drill and brings them into the team huddle. If Spiker is not out there, Jennings is usually in shorts and sneakers running the team through drills.

As for the guards, I think that they have a lot to offer. They've shown a bit of versatility and the ability to step up when the other ones are having bad days.

As for Doles, I dont think it was a matchup that kept him off the court. I thought that it was something more. Otherwise, there was no reason for Spiker to play just seven players, if for no other reason than to keep from completely gassing your guys when you are playing two games in three days.

Above all else, Spiker's comments about every day is a day to learn leads me to believe that Doles sat to teach him a lesson. But that's just me.

As for the exchange, I welcome them. Its no secret that I was critical of Bruiser, and I am definitely a bit lenient on Spiker, more because I like his attitude towards the team and his attempt to look at things positively. Its a refreshing change.

yeah it's hard to not look at everything from the lens of how bruiser did it. I'm trying not to. It's all I've ever known as a college basketball fan so it's difficult. I can definitely say I hope it works out for Coach Spiker.

I've also been trying to compare what I saw with a failed rebuild attempt by Buzz Peterson at UNCW with what I'm seeing now. That team didn't play any defense if I remember correctly. It was reassuring to see we could play some D on Saturday. They also only had a good big man without any quality guards.
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